Guest Posts

All of the guest posts on Basic Blog Tips are in this category. I also included a post highlighting all of my guest posts.

The 7 Most Dangerous Blog Design Mistakes

The 7 Most Dangerous Blog Design Mistakes

119 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

There are many millions of blogs on the internet, and probably about 98% of them are garbage to be honest. And because there is so much choice out there, it is very hard to stand out – unless you can “WOW” a first time visitor with a great design, interesting content and also plenty of engagement. Probably the best way to get loads of traffic and engagement to your blog is simply to have people make repeat visits, and come back on a regular basis for more.

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How I Use Social Media To Drive Traffic to My Latest Blog Post

134 Comments / Guest Posts, Social Media / /

Traffic is the lifeline of a blog; if you don’t have it, you don’t exist. Most people rely on the mighty search engines for their traffic. But there are other ways of getting traffic to your blog by utilizing the power of social media. The role of social media sites is front and center when it comes to driving traffic to my site. The most popular ones include; Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in descending order in terms of traffic. This means that Facebook is the biggest traffic referrer to my site, other than the search engines. But how do I really do it?

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4 Ways to Ruin Guest Posting by Turning it into Spam

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Undoubtedly, guest blogging is a favored strategy for those looking to acquire links from top quality niche sites. Prominent blog owners are usually inundated with emails asking whether they accept guest articles. Since guest blogging or guest posting is a popular means for self and blog promotion, Google is keeping a close eye on how blog owners and authors If operate with their posts. While guest posting is beneficial and powerful as the site owner receives fresh content while the guest blogger receives a link, it comes with its own set of pitfalls.

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Clickbank products in Google Search

How To Find The Best ClickBank Products To Promote

74 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

This article is for those of you who have already signed up for ClickBank but you failed to find the right products to promote or perhaps you want to increase the number of sales you’re getting. Maybe you are someone who actually stopped promoting ClickBank products because you weren’t satisfied with your income, then you need to take this post seriously. If you’re new to the concept of affiliate marketing, now might be the right time for you to start making money from your blogging efforts, so go ahead and get yourself a Clickbank account and give these tips a try.

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How to Build an Online Directory of Luxury Listings Using WordPress

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A few months ago I was approached by an existing client to build a 5-year old brain child of his, an online directory of user uploaded Luxury Rental Listings (exotic rental cars, yachts charters, mansions, private jet charters, limos), dubbed Luxury Rental Directory. He came up with the idea of this directory solely of luxury listings a few years ago and had worked with a number of other web developers and no one could seem to get the website working properly. Lets talk about one of the WordPress plugins I used to build an online directory using that make the filtering system work.

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Quality Traffic for your Blog

5 Proven Techniques to Drive Quality Traffic to Your Blog

135 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

For a blogger, one of the toughest tasks is to drive quality traffic to your blog and build an engaged audience. I know this since I have been through this myself. Many beginners and newbies find it difficult to get people to read their content and eventually they get frustrated and end up quitting. With this in mind, I am going to give you a list of five proven techniques to help every blogger, whether a newbie or an established one to drive quality targeted traffic to your blogs.

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Does Search Engine Friendly Web Hosting Really Exist?

93 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts, Tech / /

Search engine friendly web hosting helps your website generate more traffic by making sure you stay up on the rankings in a search engine’s search results. But is this really true? When a new web-master decides to take the plunge and buy web hosting it is never an easy step to take but many never give search engine friendly hosting a second thought. Let me discuss website hosting and how it is vitally important to the success of your website when it comes to dominating the search results.

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